Student 

Friendship  Fund 


In  the  great  task  of  promoting  the  brotherhood  of 
humanity — is  learning  to  lag  behind? 


Student 

Friendship  Fund 

Administered  through 

WORLD’S  STUDENT  CHRISTIAN 
FEDERATION 

Represented  in  America  by 

THE  COUNCIL  OF  NORTH  AMERI¬ 
CAN  STUDENT  MOVEMENTS 

The  Student  Young  Men’s  Christian 
Associations 

The  Student  Young  Women’s  Chris¬ 
tian  Associations 

The  Student  Volunteer  Movement 

John  R.  Mott,  Chairman 

George  W.  Perkins,  Jr.,  National  Treasurer 

Advisory  Committee 

Jane  Addams 

Edwin  A.  Alderman 

James  Rowland  Angell 

Sarah  Louise  Arnold 

Henry  Turner  Bailey 

David  P.  Barrows 

Mary  Leal  Harkness  Black 

William  L.  Bryan 

Marion  LeRoy  Burton 

Valentine  Chandor 

Ada  Comstock 

John  H.  Finley 

H.  A.  Garfield 

J.  E.  Gregg 

John  Grier  Hibben 

Herbert  C.  Hoover 

David  Kinley 

Mrs.  Robert  E.  Speer 

M.  Carey  Thomas 

Robert  E.  Vinson 

Ray  L.  Wilbur 

Lucy  Madeira  Wing 

Woodrow  Wilson 

National  Headquarters 
129  East  52d  Street 
New  York,  N.  Y. 


Stand  by  the  Students 
of  Europe 

WHY? 

In  many  countries  of  Europe  the  stu¬ 
dent  generation  is  fighting  against  des¬ 
perate  odds  for  just  that  kind  of  educa¬ 
tion  which  hundreds  of  thousands  of 
American  students  are  obtaining  under 
normal  conditions  and  advantages . 

America  feels  secure  in  the  constant  replen¬ 
ishment  and  increase  of  the  number  of  her 
citizens  who  have  a  trained  equipment  of 
mind  as  well  as  of  heart  and  hand.  In  her 
educational  opportunities,  in  the  democracy 
of  her  educational  systems,  the  thirst  of  her 
young  people  for  educational  advancement  and 
the  manifold  outlets  for  the  service  of  edu¬ 
cated  men  and  women,  America  senses  the 
building  of  that  finer  humanity  which  will 
insure  a  stable,  peaceful  and  prosperous  world. 
But  can  America  find  reasonable  contentment 
in  her  own  extraordinary  blessings;  can  she 
feel  secure,  and  can  she  feel  assured  of  the 
future  when  the  very  life  of  many  institutions 
of  higher  learning  in  Europe  is  threatened? 

By  making  it  possible  for  worthy, 
needy  students  to  persist  in  their  studies 
the  universities  of  Central  Europe  will 
be  materially  aided  in  keeping  open 
their  doors.  To  allow  these  institutions 
to  disintegrate  would  be  a  disaster,  not 
only  to  their  own  nations,  but  to  the 
whole  civilized  world. 

How  immeasurable  would  be  our  loss  and 
how  convicting  would  be  our  failure  to  have 
served  fully  the  call  of  Christian ,  interna¬ 
tional  friendship  and  duty! 


Something  New  in 
International  Relationships 

The  students  of  America  undertook  in 
1920,  in  common  with  the  students  of  other 
nations,  to  bring  relief  to  their  fellow  students 
in  Europe. 

Students  of  26  nations,  united,  within 
one  year  raised  $600,000  and  brought 
direct  relief  to  70,000  students  in  11  coun¬ 
tries,  touching  120  different  institutions 
of  higher  learning,  with  an  attendance  of 
250,000  students. 

The  World’s  Student  Christian  Federa¬ 
tion,  organized  in  1895,  a  federation  of  Na¬ 
tional  Student  Christian  Movements,  a  stu¬ 
dent  organization  of  friendship,  interdenomi¬ 
national,  interconfessional,  fully  international, 
undertook  the  administration  of  the  relief 
fund  in  cooperation  with  the  American  Re¬ 
lief  Administration. 


CONTRIBUTION  DISTRIBUTION 


Argentine 
Canada 
China 
Denmark 
Egypt 
England 
France  ^ 
India  and  ceylo 
Italy 
Jamaica 
Japan 


Cash 

’and  value  of 
Tood  and  clothing 
(distributed  thruWSIFf 
Japanese  inU.sA  in  cooperation 
Netherlands^^  with  the  A. R. A  , 


Norway 
Portugal 
Roumania' 

South  Africa/, 
Sweden  /  / 
Switzerland'' 
United  Kingdom^ 
United  States 


#600,000., 


Refugee  students 
in  Germany. 
Hungary 


Because  of  the  exchange  value  of 
the  American  dollar  in  Europe  every 
contribution  in  dollars  multiplies  itself 
many  times  when  applied  to  relief 
work. 


Expert  Testimony 

Herbert  C.  Hoover,  Secretary  of  Com¬ 
merce  : 

“I  am  impressed  with  the  fact  that  there  is  no 
greater  service  that  can  be  performed  than 
that  of  keeping  alive  the  institutions  through 
which  the  real  advancement  and  social  recov¬ 
ery  of  Europe  must  arise.” 

Lord  Robert  Cecil,  M.P.,  Chancellor  of 
the  University  of  Birmingham: 

“There  is  no  such  thing  as  national  learning. 
World  learning  is  the  only  thing  worth  con¬ 
sidering.  In  the  great  task  of  promoting  the 
brotherhood  of  humanity — is  learning  to  lag 
behind  ?” 

Dr.  John  Grier  Hibben,  President  of 
Princeton  University: 

“The  hope  of  the  future  in  Europe  lies  in  the 
education  of  the  coming  generation,  and  it  is 
certainly  a  privilege  if  in  America  we  can  help 
at  least  to  feed  and  clothe  the  young  men  and 
women  of  these  devastated  lands  so  that  they 
may  pursue  their  studies.” 


Hof  rat  Dr.  Friedrich  Hertz,  State  De¬ 
partment,  Vienna: 

“Thousands  of  hopeful  young  people  are  being 
saved  through  your  work  from  extreme  misery 
which  otherwise  would  break  their  mental  and 
moral  energy.  If  they  should  succumb  this 
would  mean  the  disappearance  of  forces  in¬ 
dispensable  for  any  reconstruction  in  our 
country.” 

Dr.  John  H.  Finley,  Associate  Editor, 
New  York  Times: 

“Out  of  my  own  observation  of  what  the 
World’s  Student  Christian  Federation  is  doing 
in  Europe  I  am  able  to  give  warmest  support 
to  this  great  organization.  I  remember  par¬ 
ticularly  the  students  whom  I  saw  in  the  old 
University  at  Dorpat  in  Esthonia  enjoying  the 
nourishing  hospitality  of  the  Federation.  But 
all  this  is  but  a  preface  to  an  intellectual  and 
spiritual  comradeship  among  the  students  who 
are  to  be  the  leaders  in  the  world  affairs  of 
tomorrow." 


Needs  for  1921-1922 

With  Russia  opening  her  doors  to  re¬ 
lief  additional  responsibility  for  the  as¬ 
sistance  of  Russian  students  is  placed 
on  the  Relief  Committee  of  the  World’s 
Student  Christian  Federation.  It  is  diffi¬ 
cult  to  estimate  at  this  time  how  great 
this  demand  will  be. 

An  increasing  number  of  “foreign”  and 
refugee  students  have  come  to  the  United 
States  from  Europe  this  year.  Many  of  these 
students  need  such  help  as  the  Federation  can 
give.  To  care  for  this  group  there  will  be 
required  $78,000,  of  which  amount  one-half 
is  to  be  considered  as  a  revolving  loan  fund. 

A  constantly  increasing  demand  has  been 
made  on  the  regular  staff  of  the  World’s  Stu¬ 
dent  Christian  Federation  for  work  in  con¬ 
nection  with  relief,  and  $18,000  toward  the 
current  budget  should  be  provided. 

To  adequately  meet  the  above  needs  and  con¬ 
tinue  to  provide  relief  already  undertaken  a  mini¬ 
mum  of  $750,000  will  be  required.  Much  more 
could  be  wisely  used.  In  order  to  secure  the  mini¬ 
mum  of  $750,000  it  will  be  necessary  for  the 
students  of  America  to  give  at  least  $500,000. 
American  student  contributions  last  year  for 
European  relief,  chiefly  student,  totalled  approxi¬ 
mately  $580,000.  The  nature  of  relief  will,  as  in 
the  past,  be  determined  by  existing  conditions. 
The  Relief  Committee  estimates  the  following 
approximate  proportions:  Feeding  and  medical 
help,  30%;  clothing,  17 %;  foyer  and  housing,  3%; 
books,  7%;  self-help  and  student  exchange,  3%; 
refugee  students  in  Europe,  23%;  administration, 
visitation  and  emergency  fund,  17%. 

PRINCIPLES  FOLLOWED  IN 

RELIEF 

I.  Relief  is  administered  impartially,  with¬ 
out  regard  to  race,  nationality  or  creed,  or 
any  other  criterion  than  proven  need. 

II.  Relief  is  conducted  on  sound  economic 
lines.  Students  pay  to  the  utmost  of  their 
ability  for  whatever  they  receive. 

III.  Self-help  is  encouraged  in  every  pos¬ 
sible  way. 

IV.  Close  cooperation  is  followed  with 
existing  agencies.  By  correlation  of  effort 
maximum  relief  is  provided  at  the  minimum 
of  overhead  expense. 


The  Woman  Student: 

One-fifth  to  one-third  of  the  enrollment  in 
the  universities  of  Europe  are  women,  largely 
dependent  upon  their  earnings,  underfed, 
poorly  clothed,  health  far  below  par, —  but 
struggling  on. 

The  Refugee  Student: 

There  are  approximately  20,000  refugee 
students  in  the  universities  of  Central  Eu¬ 
rope  : 

Students  who  were  studying  away  from 
their  own  country,  and,  because  of  war,  have 
had  communications  with  home  cut  off ; 

Students  who  have  been  on  the  losing  side 
in  civil  war  or  revolution  and  have  fled  from 
their  own  country; 

Students  who  are  prisoners  of  war; 
Students  who,  though  in  their  own  coun¬ 
try,  are  nevertheless  refugees.  They  are  in 
territories  transferred  under  the  Peace  Treaty 
from  Hungary  to  Roumania,  Czechoslovakia 
and  Jugoslavia,  respectively. 

DO  THEY  HELP  THEMSELVES? 

THEY  DO 

I.  Their  Governments  Help — 

In  providing  buildings  or  offices  for  our  work. 
In  permitting  free  transport  of  supplies  and 
workers. 

The  Government  in  Hungary  supplied  relief 
in  the  proportion  of  five  to  one  for  every  dollar 
we  have  given. 

II.  The  People  of  the  Country  Help 

The  National  Red  Cross  Societies  and  other  na¬ 
tional  agencies  are  always  ready  to  cooperate. 
Business  and  other  influential  men  and  women 
help. 

III.  The  Students  Help 

By  giving  time  to  the  administration  of  our 
work. 

By  raising  money  for  relief. 

By  assisting  in  seeing  that  only  the  neediest 
are  helped. 

To  safeguard  against  students  entering  school 
with  the  hope  of  being  supported  by  providing 
that  no  students  in  their  first  year  shall  re¬ 
ceive  help  from  relief. 

IV.  The  Students  Work 

The  vast  majority  of  students  in  the  lands 
relieved  are  doing  wage-earning  work  in  addi¬ 
tion  to  their  studies. 


Reasons  Why 
Students  of  America 
Should  Give 


To  conserve  the  physical,  mental  and  moral 
gains  resulting  from  the  relief  extended  by 
American  students  during  the  past  yean 

To  carry  out  the  ordinary  implications  of 
the  Golden  Rule,  including  the  principle  that 
the  strong  should  serve  the  weak. 

To  give  added  force  to  the  effort  to  solve 
various  interracial  issues  involved  in  the  Con¬ 
ference  to  Reduce  Armaments. 

To  help  overcome  the  human  effects  of 
war,  privation  and  pestilence. 

To  impress  unmistakably  upon  the  future 
leaders  of  Europe,  who  are  its  present  students, 
that  the  purpose  of  America’s  youth  is  truly 
a  ministry  of  friendship. 

Because  the  broadly  spiritual  results  of  the 
relief  work  depend  very  largely  upon  its  being 
a  work  of  friendship  for  students  by  students. 

To  project  the  student  body  and  intelli¬ 
gence  of  America  actively  into  the  transcend¬ 
ent  task  of  world  reconstruction  along  lines 
of  goodwill  and  progress. 

To  help  meet  our  obligation  to  European 
institutions  to  which  our  own  educational 
life  owes  much. 

To  help  preserve  principles  and  institutions 
as  well  as  human  values  essential  to  the  re¬ 
covery  of  Europe  and  the  world. 


